Get Ready to Match the Stars... Again!

[kevin_standlee]

According to discussions I had at BASFA tonight, and subject to being able to work out the staging and technical aspects, we appear to be booked to do Match Game SF at BayCon as the Masquerade Half-Time show. This may turn out to be the most challenging venue in which we've ever done the show, on account of having to quickly turn the stage after the end of the run-through without losing the audience and then get the game going. And there are plenty of details, like getting people's names into the drawing to be contestants.

My biggest concern right now is getting new questions. We've run through the deck too many times, so the show is stale if we re-use many questions. I'm okay for tie-breaker and bonus-round matches -- we have lots of them -- but main game questions are all used up.

I would expect to be able to play at most four games during the time we have allowed (and I suppose we could to a "rerun" by using old questions if we somehow needed to fill time), so we need sixteen new questions. I could use you folks' help. Either send them to me in e-mail or as comments here.

Comments

[howeird]

Yes, I've seen your Match Game, but am not sure what kind of questions you need. I can come up with lots if I know the guidelines.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

What we need are questions with an SF/F bent that meet the Match Game formula: a fill-in-the-blank question, preferably with multiple likely responses, and it's always better if it's funny.

[howeird]

Thanks, that should be easy enough. I'll bring some to the next BASFA meeting.

Speaking of BASFA, here is the book I mentioned as a possible Hugo nomination:

Wings of the Kingdom
Cherie Priest
Link link link

It's part of a trilogy, the first book came out in 2005, the third is due out next month.